Elevating privileges

2009-03-26 Thread Steven L
Hello, I'm working on an application that would require elevated privileges during certain functions. I would like to implement something like the SuSE Yast setup tool, where if a function is selected by a non privileged user, a prompt is presented for the root password, which in turn all

Re: Updated Roadmap

2009-03-26 Thread Guenther Noack
Hi! On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:03:39AM +, Nicola Pero wrote: > I support you in your efforts to organize our roadmap ... but I would > rather have roadmaps for the separate packages > rather than a global "GNUstep 1.0" roadmap. ;-) Then why don't jump to version 2.0 directly? Just my 2c. :

Re: Updated Roadmap

2009-03-26 Thread Gregory John Casamento
Very good point. :) Gregory Casamento -- Principal Consultant - OLC, Inc # GNUstep Chief Maintainer From: Nicola Pero To: Gregory Casamento Cc: GNUstep Developer Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 6:03:39 AM Subject: Re: Updated Roadmap On 25 Mar 2009, at 20

Re: Updated Roadmap

2009-03-26 Thread David Chisnall
And one more thing... Under packaging, you have: • Package name, like GNUstep 1.0 for everything... Since -base and -gui releases happen at the same time now, it would be really great to synchronize their release numbers. Every time I'm troubleshooting GNUstep problems, I end up wading thr

Re: Updated Roadmap

2009-03-26 Thread Nicola Pero
On 25 Mar 2009, at 20:37, Gregory Casamento wrote: I've updated the 1.0 Roadmap here: http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Roadmap I'm throwing this out for discussion to find out where everyone thinks we stand on some of these goals and what should be added/ changed on this. I support you

Re: Two gui ABI changes

2009-03-26 Thread Fred Kiefer
Wolfgang Lux wrote: > Fred Kiefer wrote: > >> Markus Hitter wrote: >>> >>> Am 24.03.2009 um 09:07 schrieb Fred Kiefer: >>> The other change is to give up a special behaviour in GNUstep. Apple documents that calls to [NSView setNeedsDisplay:] (and setNeedsDisplayInRect:) only work as

Re: Updated Roadmap

2009-03-26 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 25.03.2009 um 23:55 schrieb Gregory Casamento: Currently Terminal is not distributed with GNUstep itself, it's in GAP. Mail is also not in GNUstep. These two are in your roadmap for GNUstep 1.0 and missing in http:// www.nongnu.org/gap/ , giving me a different impression. Your further